{"id":5925,"date":"2019-06-15T19:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/?p=5925"},"modified":"2019-06-26T20:07:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:07:55","slug":"suzanne-case-and-fake-environmentalism-dangerous-to-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/15\/suzanne-case-and-fake-environmentalism-dangerous-to-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Fake Environmentalism Poses a Danger to the Public; Hawaii\u2019s Deadly Serious Environmental Issues Are Worse Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ah, those heady Nature Conservancy days when Suzanne Case was at the helm.\u00a0 They got some pretty good mediocre stuff done back in those days, and if you\u2019ll let her, she\u2019ll tell you all about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

But now it\u2019s now, and what she won\u2019t tell you, now, is how miserably she and her DLNR board members are failing not only Hawaii\u2019s environment, but Hawaii\u2019s entire ocean recreation community:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1) Suzanne Case's DLNR has done nothing to solve Hawaii's most serious environmental issues;\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

2) Her DoBOR division Administrator, Ed Underwood, is suspected \u2013- on just about every island -- of illegal collusion and backdoor dealings with private interests desperate to have public lands turned over to them in order to grow their bottom lines;<\/span><\/p>\n

3) Case\u2019s DoCARE division is currently under investigation by the Attorney General\u2019s office for gross dereliction of duty;<\/span><\/p>\n

4) Her Land Board legal department has repeatedly struggled with the simplest of legal basics, blessing rules packages that, defined by civil law, defraud the public.\u00a0 It would appear that Land Division's expensive attorneys <\/span>(technically a division of the AG's office) could quite easily be replaced with a half-dozen paralegals, a subscription to Grammarly, and some good legal software, saving taxpayers thousands of dollars each year in unnecessary salary expenditures; \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

5) And some on her own board, the BLNR, show unmistakable signs of struggling with functional illiteracy, which continues to result in misguided decision making that repeatedly hurts Hawaii's public<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Serious pollution issues plague the State and are dangerous to public health<\/span><\/p>\n

Our harbors and canals are, every year, clogged with millions of gallons of raw human sewerage, damaged by noxious oil spills, and polluted with tons of plastic effluence, all of which eventually finds its way out into our beautiful bays, harbors and ocean shorelines.\u00a0 Suzanne Case doesn\u2019t like talking about this much, preferring to tell you about the hiking trail she just opened, or the privatization of Palmyra Island by her Nature Conservancy to save the island for its rich donors\u2019 kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

The DLNR\u2019s version of leadership hasn't been working well for the public. \u00a0In fact, it\u2019s proven dangerous. The State refuses to track the MRSA infections caused by its filthy water; people who have fallen into the Ala Wai have died of flesh eating bacterial disease, and the whole poop-in-the-water thing poses a real health hazard for the people of Hawaii and its visitors.\u00a0 Suzanne Case, the environmentalist, doesn\u2019t talk much about this.<\/span><\/p>\n

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